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Mid-career shift?

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With a shift into busuness at age 28, I wouldn't call it a mid-career shift. Early seems better, or just describe it as a career shift.Mwinog2777 (talk) 19:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The bogus stimulus-saved-him story

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I've reverted this chain e-mail claim a few times ... here is FactCheck.org dismissing this truth-free narrative. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Book & Obama check-out

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His new book is A Game of Character (flogged by NPR at 'First Brother-In-Law' Craig Robinson Talks Family, Character) and inter alia it tells a great story that i am surprised to have 1st heard last nite on Charlie Rose (talk show). Esquire (magazine) tells it like this at Obama's Basketball Story - Chuck Klosterman on Craig Robinson and Obama - Esquire (copied here for sake of our discussion on how to present it, tho it can't be copied into our article, and needs to be bastardized by at least one of our editors for our article.)

Two decades ago, Michelle tells Craig she's dating a new guy at her law firm whom she's relatively serious about, but she wants Craig to figure out if he's the real deal. Can this future lawyer be trusted? She tells her brother that her suitor self-identifies as a basketball player and asks if he can play with Robinson and his friends. The six-foot-six Robinson was a two-time Ivy League player of the year at Princeton and a fourth-round draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers, so the competition level was relatively high. Robinson tells the rest of it like this:
"This story gets bastardized," he begins. "I tell every reporter the same story, using the same words, and then they write whatever they want. But here is what happened: When I played basketball with Barack, he was quietly confident, which means he had good self-esteem without being cocky. He was certainly a team player — he wasn't a pig, he passed when he was supposed to pass, and he cut when he was supposed to cut. To me, that speaks to a lack of selfishness. He had natural leadership ability, because he didn't just pass me the ball because he was dating my sister. Whenever a player gets tired, he reverts back to the player he truly is. That's how you tell. And we played for hours. That's how I could tell."

Actually, he told it with more words than that on Charlie Rose, saying also that there are always situations in such a game where the lack of a ref requires players to confess walking or a foul when that's what happened if they are going to be able to continue to play together w/o resentment on the long term. He says essentially that Obama showed enuf humility to say so when he was in the wrong and enuf determination to claim his due when he was in the right.
We should mention the book in the accompanying article, and probably briefly describe the incident.
--Jerzy•t 19:20, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've read the 'Obama test game' story a dozen times – it's become part of the Obama narrative, as the Esquire piece states – but you're right that this article did not do a very good job of relating it. I've expanded the description and added much of the above quote. I've also added the publication of his memoir, which for some reason I wasn't aware of yet. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:43, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Craig Robinson"

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The usage and primary topic of Craig Robinson is under discussion, see talk:Craig Robinson (actor) -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 06:47, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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